Ok guys, we thought we were in great contention with our butt, brisket and ribs, chicken being our weakest. the competition was so much fun...what a great time. We even had a groupie hanging out at our area all night, I won't go into what happened there for the sake of keeping it clean and on topic.
Chicken we weren't all that happy with but still scored okay, better than we expected actually. Ribs, man, if that one judge...the scoring went 1-10 with 10 being the best. We got two triple tens from the first two judges...and the last one gave us triple fives. Had that one just given us 7's we would have taken first place in ribs.
We ended up with placing for Best in Show, which is a consolation for being the most fun group to hang out with, whatever that means.
Our scoring stayed in the middle of the pack with lots of ties and very close grading, so we are happy with the outcome for being our first time. Here's a little video I did of all our team members over the weekend during the comp. Out team name was Brown Chicken Brown Cow, got a ton of laughs from folks. Best part was during our prep for turn in, we had at least 30 people around our tables watching us put it in the box, all of them applauding for us as we left to turn in...NO other groups had fans like that. If there was a public favorite category, I bet we'd have a plaque on the wall right now. What a great time
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